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slamityshane

Blood Over Bright Haven

M.L. Wang

4.0

adventurous challenging dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

If you have rage at a religious oligarchy like I do. Read this book! An eerily accurate metaphor for our current political situation. Full of feminine rage. I’m excited to see what Wang writes next!

How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

4.5

challenging medium-paced

Open Throat

Henry Hoke

4.25

dark funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

A Gathering of Shadows

V.E. Schwab

4.5

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A Day of Fallen Night

Samantha Shannon

4.75

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores

Dominique DuBois Gilliard

3.25

informative medium-paced

Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

Robert K. Ressler

4.25

challenging dark informative medium-paced

Ravensong

TJ Klune

2.75

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The spicy scenes in this book are 🥵🔥 and VERY explicit and detailed. If you’re a gay guy or just someone who loves mlm, this book has GOT it. The whole pack dynamic adds a level of voyeurism/kink to this story that’s fun and spicy.

That being said, I was fairly disappointed with the prose. I found the writing to be repetitive and uninspiring. I felt like I was beat over the head with gordo’s abandonment issues and the concept of ‘packpackpack.’ The characters also felt under developed.

And I’m saying this as someone who loves TJ Klune as an author, he’s written such wonderful books. Under the Whispering Door is one of my favorites. I just overall don’t love the Green Creek series.